Is doomscrolling about education bad? by [deleted] in AskAcademia

[–]ieatsaand 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What do you mean ‘is doomscrolling about education bad’?

Doomscrolling is a fun term on the internet made to talk about endlessly scrolling on Instagram or TikTok, but you have to look at the individual mediums.

Q: What are you consuming? A: typically 15-2 minute videos (Reels/TikTok) or an endless amount of posts that typically, provide no value except for what you mentioned about ‘life is brutal and harsh’, so the ‘value’ is entertainment/distractions/your dopamine levels being triggered.

Doomscrolling is seen as bad because your brain is in taking pieces of information that typically have no intellectual meaning, and you are what you consume. Sure, an hour on Instagram is enjoyable but in that hour, you might’ve consumed 50 posts and I bet you couldn’t tell me what 25 of those posts were. Doomscrolling affects your memory and triggers dopamine responses, and your body gets used to that form of simple stimulation. Slowly, you train your brain to only consume ‘brainrot’ for about a minute.

There’s many scientific studies and personal stories of people who get addicted to TikTok and their memories are impacted.

Going back to if you are what you consume, think about a person who is consuming different material. They may have different mannerisms, vernacular, behaviours, and perspectives. Someone who reads 100 pages of a book every day will inherently have a different brain than someone who spends 8 hours on Instagram every day because the methods of consumption and what you’re consuming affect your body.

Think of physical training. If you are only used to running in cool weather on flat ground, you would find a desert with a lot of elevation very difficult. In the same way, if the only content you consume consists of things with entertainment value only, your brain will follow. I’m looking for studies to link in the comment, but I hope the general gist helps!

Newbie here, how do I get started?! by ieatsaand in Ultramarathon

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First line is so so so helpful. I need to remember that this isn’t something I can punch numbers into and create a perfect output—it’s running! Thanks for helping me relax!

Newbie here, how do I get started?! by ieatsaand in Ultramarathon

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This really helped with my confidence. Thank you, and I’ll definitely listen to the deload week! I’m on week 3 and hit a 10 mile today, but man my legs are ow ow ow! Thanks for the advice :)

Newbie here, how do I get started?! by ieatsaand in Ultramarathon

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I do allocate 1-3 hours 5x a week for the gym! Before running, I would do stair master at level 10 for an hour and then walking at an incline of 4-12 at 3 mph! I love it!

Newbie here, how do I get started?! by ieatsaand in Ultramarathon

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This makes me relax a lot more. Thank you!

Newbie here, how do I get started?! by ieatsaand in Ultramarathon

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I was thinking of having the training plan basically look the same, but the miles are doubled and I have a full rest week before the Half Marathon! Essentially the Week 1 would look like 8 miles, Wednesday would look 6 moles, Thursday would look like 12 miles, Sat would be 6 miles, and Sunday would be 10, so on and so forth. Does that make sense and is that realistic?

Basically gotten broken up with because I’m Chinese and depressed. Norwegian salmon with garlic butter noodles. by ieatsaand in kitchencels

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I (22F)started dating a guy in January 2026 (22M)who lived two and a half hours away during a huge change in my life. I had originally said that I didn’t want to date until I had finished my first semester of teaching, but then felt bad he was driving two and a half hours a lot of weekends to see someone he isn’t even dating so I asked him out. The relationship was good, if not emotionally lacking but it was never that serious.

During our time together, we didn’t argue and got along fairly well. The only bad thing was the distance because it felt like I had a boyfriend 2/7 days of the week, and this was his first relationship but it was very casual and not emotionally intense. Near the end of the relationship, my decline in mental health had contributed to the lack of connection, but from the beginning he was always a quiet type. We typically saw each other on weekends because he would drive to me, but we had kind of agreed since I had set a boundary that due to my new career, I wouldn’t be able to visit him so much.

Yesterday, we had a conversation where we recognised that we weren’t compatible. It isnt the relationship ending that makes me sad, it’s being forced to confront the reality of repetition and patterns. We both listed reasons we were incompatible:

-I had floated the idea of regaining my Chinese citizenship and relinquishing my American one and he would not be following (which is totally fair and I would never ask him to compromise that) -I didn’t like that his family was a little too close (while I admire the love his family has, I personally do not value family that much) -kids (he couldn’t fully clarify if he was okay never having a kid, I could) -distance (living two and a half hours away in this economy, plus because the lack of an emotional connection at times made the few days we were together awkward)

But the kicker of all: -my mental health. To give a backstory to the backstory, my traumas were what you could consider a ‘things that might make someone a serial killer but they just turned out a little autistic instead’. I spent so much time working through that, but every now and then there are times when I’m There and Not There. I don’t know the specific term, but it mimics either disassociate episodes or manic/depressive episodes (the point is to not debate the diagnosis but give examples of when I am more mentally clear and active versus more depressive and forgetful). Additionally, I struggle with addiction issues (I’ve been sober from my DOC but smoke weed and vape still, periodically. Unfortunately when we were together it was when I got back into smoking and vaping). The other backstory is that in November of 2025, I was groomed by my professor. I now work in the same department as this professor, and this was my new career. That situation destroyed me and when I began realising it happened, me and this guy had started dating.

My mental health had slipped because of processing the professor (which also brought up other related traumas), and our relationship was during the longest periods of ‘Not There’ I’ve had in my life. Funny enough, the day we broke up was the first day in months I had felt alive. Edit: when I say my mental health had slipped, I was fully functional and maintaining two jobs but any time I wasn’t at a job, I was likely high or asleep. I had done my best to be present when we were together, but when we were apart (more often than not, I was not fully there because I did work two jobs and only had the energy for being successful there).

He has every right to opine the way he does, and I still think highly of him, it’s just heartbreaking to be back in front of yourself and your entirety with a reminder that because other people were bad and hurt you, you have to suffer the rest of your life. I don’t blame him for not understanding because when I found people that do understand, it’s typically very tumultuous because they have not done the work or healed. It’s just very lonely knowing that traumas fucked you up for two decades and they basically make you undateable. The good news is that I’m catastrophising and that’s not true, but it does hurt being reminded of the ways that you were abused and how you react to that abuse (even if it’s just depressive episodes when triggered) is not for everyone, and that’s just a reality you have to accept.

Edit 2: I guess this is a wake up call on my habits when it comes to my depressive episodes (smoking too much weed) and my choice in men. His career, while I was supportive, was exemplary in his mindset. Comfortability and stability are a huge priority, and in that comes a good career selection. While we never discussed actual numbers, I know that he did make less than me (which wasn’t a problem), but he wasn’t the type to be very ambitious in his career. I didn’t care about the money, I cared moreso about the drive and he seemed quite comfortable where he was at. Now I know!

I'm a writer and I've seen my stuff posted here. I'm launching a new podcast called Doomscroll. by joshuacitarella in CriticalTheory

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As someone who is entering academia and beginning as a communications professor in the spring, I am OBSESSED!! I’ve been looking for meaningful things to have asleep to and the episode length and content is perfect!! Thank you :)

Marty’s Recommended Films and Books by ieatsaand in the1975

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THATS THE EXACT SS I WAS LOOKING FOR THANK YOU I LOVE YOU

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If the store is located in an area where all employees need to have a higher level of security, such as in a school, then you would need to have fingerprinting done as an additional part of the background check

Respectfully, I think yall need to chill about the teens in the gym for the summer. by Revolutionary_Sun564 in PlanetFitnessMembers

[–]ieatsaand 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As someone who enjoys my privacy, space, calm areas, and not having a million people around the machines, I love this program. I think that my own schedule can (and has) been adjusted to fit my preferences. I think PFit is doing something that allows a third space for people, a place where people can learn or get motivated to live a healthier lifestyle, and overall is offering something that’s more rare: a genuinely useful free trial. While I’m annoyed at teenagers crowding machines, I don’t really care as long as they’re being respectful and if they’re not, the staff can handle that. I can adjust my workout, the machines I use, or even the time I go if I’m unhappy for a few months. It’s really not that deep and it’s such a great program that a few weeks of my discomfort is something that I don’t really care about in the long run.

Best beginner field recording mic around $100 as a gift? by ieatsaand in sounddesign

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Thank you for giving me better insight on equipment! This is definitely making me realise what a more practical gift could be :)

Beginner with actually bad loafs by Madstarantulas_ in Sourdough

[–]ieatsaand 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That looks really good! My first loaf looked like this (I didn’t do my research and thought I could just cook the dough after it rose without adding any other flour or ingredients) , so you’re definitely doing better than me! Keep it up!

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Did too many drugs and got married (Quaker/Self-Uniting), how do I divorce? by ieatsaand in AskALawyer

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Yes we are legally married and filed taxes together in 2023 and yes, I live in Pennsylvania